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If you can stay at home and get in more debt, or work and have less debt (but still lose money month-on-month) does that make you a slave? Does it make you ensl
by nodata 14y ago
If you can stay at home and get in more debt, or work and have less debt (but still lose money month-on-month) does that make you a slave? Does it make you enslaved to your debt?
What if the wage earns you only enough to live on? Some slaves were provided with sustenance and not much else. What's the difference?
- Variance 14y agoThe fact that you have to work in order to be able to live doesn't mean that you're a slave. You might as well say that "life is slavery". This is all quite insulting to the plights of people who were slaves throughout history, and those who still are slaves today. Please don't equate the first-world gripes of people who are unprecedentedly well-off to actual slavery.
- VMG 14y agoThis is why I criticize using the term "wage slave". People actually think the lives of people who literally didn't have any human rights and were bought and sold as property are comparable to people who work under poor conditions. The author mentions that she earned $60 a day after taxes.
- nodata 14y ago> This is why I criticize using the term "wage slave". But "slave" != "wage slave", as explained in the Wikipedia article linked above.
- azakai 14y ago> What if the wage earns you only enough to live on? Some slaves were provided with sustenance and not much else. What's the difference? Are you kidding? Slaves are owned, like property (in fact that is the definition of slavery). That's a huge difference.
- Dylan16807 14y agoI owe my soul to the company store.